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List of events
Events from the year 1820 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ]
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors [ edit ] Governor of Alabama : William Wyatt Bibb (Democratic-Republican ) (until July 10), Thomas Bibb (Democratic-Republican ) (starting July 10)Governor of Connecticut : Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Toleration )Governor of Delaware :
Governor of Georgia : John Clark (Democratic-Republican )Governor of Illinois : Shadrach Bond (Independent )Governor of Indiana : Jonathan Jennings (Democratic-Republican )Governor of Kentucky : Gabriel Slaughter (Democratic-Republican ) (until August 29), John Adair (Democratic-Republican ) (starting August 29)Governor of Louisiana : Jacques Villeré (Democratic-Republican ) (until December 18), Thomas Bolling Robertson (Democratic-Republican ) (starting December 18)Governor of Maine : William King (Democratic-Republican ) (starting March 15)Governor of Maryland : Samuel Sprigg (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : John Brooks (Federalist )Governor of Mississippi : David Holmes (Democratic-Republican ) (until January 5), George Poindexter (Democratic-Republican )Governor of New Hampshire : Samuel Bell (Democratic-Republican )Governor of New Jersey : Isaac Halstead Williamson (Federalist )Governor of New York : DeWitt Clinton (Democratic-Republican )Governor of North Carolina : John Branch (Democratic-Republican ) (until December 7), Jesse Franklin (Democratic-Republican ) (starting December 7)Governor of Ohio : Ethan Allen Brown (Democratic-Republican )Governor of Pennsylvania : William Findlay (Democratic-Republican ) (until December 19), Joseph Hiester (Democratic-Republican ) (starting December 19)Governor of Rhode Island : Nehemiah R. Knight (Democratic-Republican )Governor of South Carolina : John Geddes (Democratic-Republican ) (until December 7), Thomas Bennett, Jr. (Democratic-Republican ) (starting December 7)Governor of Tennessee : Joseph McMinn (Democratic-Republican )Governor of Vermont : Jonas Galusha (Democratic-Republican ) (until October 15), Richard Skinner (Democratic-Republican ) (starting October 15)Governor of Virginia : Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. (Democratic-Republican )Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
Undated [ edit ] Ongoing [ edit ] February 1 – George Hendric Houghton , Episcopal clergyman (died 1897 )
February 4 – David C. Broderick , U.S. Senator from California from 1857 to 1859 (died 1859 )
February 6
February 8 – William Tecumseh Sherman , Civil War general (died 1891 )[1]
February 15 – Susan B. Anthony , suffragist (died 1906 )
March 1 – George Davis , Confederate States Senator from North Carolina , 4th and last Confederate States Attorney General (died 1896 )
March 3 – Henry D. Cogswell , temperance campaigner and philanthropist (died 1900 )
March 17 – William F. Raynolds , military engineer (died 1894 )
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April 8 – John Taylor Johnston , businessman and patron of the arts (died 1893 )
April 17 – Alexander Cartwright , baseball pioneer (died 1892 in Hawaii)
April 26 – Alice Cary , poet and short story writer, sister to Phoebe Cary (died 1871 )
May 23 – Lorenzo Sawyer , 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (died 1891)
May 30 – Edward Doane , Protestant missionary (died 1890)
June 2 – Willard Saulsbury, Sr. , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1859 to 1871 (died 1892 )
July 5 – Luke Pryor , U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1880 (died 1900)
July 23 – Julia Gardiner Tyler , First Lady of the United States (died 1889 )
July 31 – John W. Garrett , banker, railroad president and philanthropist (died 1884 )
August 26 – James Harlan , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1865 to 1866 (died 1899 )
August 30 – George Frederick Root , songwriter (died 1895 )
September 2 – Lucretia Peabody Hale , journalist and author (died 1900 )[2]
September 3 – George Hearst , U.S. Senator from California from 1887 to 1891 (died 1891)
September 20 – John F. Reynolds , U.S. Army general (killed 1863 )
October 5 – David Wilber , politician (died 1890 )
October 28 – John Henry Hopkins, Jr. , Episcopal clergyman and hymnist (died 1891)
November 13 – Eugene Casserly , U.S. Senator from California from 1869 to 1873 (died 1883 )
December 12 – James L. Pugh , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1880 to 1897 (died 1907 )
December 19 – Mary Livermore , born Mary Ashton Rice, journalist, abolitionist and women's rights advocate (died 1905 )
December 21 – William H. Osborn , railroad president and philanthropist (died 1894 )
December 29 – John S. Barbour, Jr. , U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1889 to 1892 (died 1892)
Eagle Woman , Lakota leader (died 1888 )February 5 – William Ellery , signer of the United States Declaration of Independence , Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (born 1729 )
March 11 – Benjamin West , American-born painter of historical scenes (born 1738 )
March 22 – Stephen Decatur , U.S. Navy commander (born 1779 )
April 14 – Levi Lincoln Sr. , statesman from Massachusetts (born 1749 )
April 20 – James Morris III , Continental Army officer from Connecticut (born 1752 )
July 10 – William Wyatt Bibb , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1813 to 1816, 1st Governor of Alabama (born 1781 )
August 12 – Manuel Lisa , fur trader (born 1772 )
September 3 – Benjamin Henry Latrobe , architect (born 1764 in Great Britain )
September 21 – Joseph Rodman Drake , poet (born 1795 ; consumption)
September 26 – Daniel Boone , pioneer (born 1734 )
September 29 – Barthelemy Lafon , Creole architect, engineer, city planner, surveyor and smuggler (born 1769 in France )
October 4 – Thomas Hope , architect (born 1757 in Great Britain )
November 8 – Lavinia Stoddard , poet and educationalist (born 1787 ) See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] Further reading [ edit ] Daniel Blowe (1820). A geographical, historical, commercial, and agricultural view of the United States of America; forming a complete emigrant's directory through every part of the republic .. . London: Edwards & Knibb. OL 14686561M . External links [ edit ]
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